Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] HTTP REST API for bitcoind

From: Michael Gronager <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:45:51 +0200

Hi Andreas / Jeff,

Access to the UTXO set can be done using libcoin (see the coinexplorer example), which also has a rest interface. Access to the UTXO set pr address/script requires indexing of all scripts, which was easy in libcoin as the blockchain is stored in a sqlite database. Integrating this in bitcoind would require setting up and maintaining such an index ad hoc.

Michael

On Jul 23, 2013, at 10:27 , Andreas Schildbach <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 07/22/2013 09:42 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>> The general goal of the HTTP REST interface is to access
>> unauthenticated, public blockchain information.  There is no plan to
>> add wallet interfacing/manipulation via this API.
> 
> Is it planned to expose the UXTO set of a given address? That would be
> useful for SPV wallets to be able to swipe a previously unknown private
> key (e.g. paper wallet).
> 
> 
> 
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